Certiorari-stage brief: Certiorari-stage briefs are the efforts by parties to tell the court why it should or should not take a case. Once the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in a case, each ...
When the losing side in a case decided by a federal court of appeals (or a state’s highest court) wants the Supreme Court to weigh in, it files a brief (known as a “petition for certiorari” or a “cert ...
One special civil action is set forth under Rule 65, which allows for petitions for Certiorari, Prohibition, and Mandamus. PETITION FOR CERTIORARI A Petition for Certiorari — Latin for "to be ...